E. W. Hornung
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A fantastic mystery novel by the famous author of the 'Raffles' series, Ernest William 'Willie' Hornung. A man survives a fire on the ship he was taking from Australia to England, losing his love, the beautiful Eva Denison. He seeks to lose himself in the streets of London, but finds that someone is following him - leading him to uncover a sinister conspiracy... Warning: this book was written in 1897 and is as such a product of its time. Some of the...
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A Thief in the Night Is A Book of Raffles' Adventures By E.W. Hornung. One story, for example, has Raffles and Bunny visiting their old minor public school and re-enacting some of Raffles' schoolboy exploits. Another has a supposedly dead Raffles visiting a museum in Scotland Yard that contains articles from his more famous crimes.
The last story is unusual in that it is told by Bunny's former fiancée and shows Raffles in an unusually honourable...
The last story is unusual in that it is told by Bunny's former fiancée and shows Raffles in an unusually honourable...
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Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewellery from his hosts. In this, he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveillance of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard who is always thwarted...
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The cracking debut of A. J. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaire Sometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. For Bunny Manders and A. J. Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Hundreds of pounds in the red, Bunny grows so desperate that he asks Raffles, a former classmate who captained their public school's cricket team, for help. When...
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The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. A national sporting hero, Arthur J. Raffles[note 1] is a prominent member of London society. As a cricketer, he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as cover to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from the elite of London, for thrill and profit. He is assisted in this by his friend, the younger Harry "Bunny" Manders, who idealizes...
6) No Hero
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A fantastic novel by Ernest William Hornung, the author most famous as the creator of the Raffles series of novels. Set in a Swiss hotel, an Eton boy has fallen in love with an 'adventuress', and the protagonist, a friend of the boy's mother, attempts to disillusion the boy.
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A gruesome tale! A somewhat immature teenage boy, Tony 'Pocket' Upton, goes to London to consult a doctor about his asthma and finds himself without a place to stay. He decides to spend the night in the park. The next thing he knows he is standing with a gun in his hand, and a body at his feet. The inescapable conclusion is that Pocket has shot him while sleep-walking. Another man is looking at him in horror but agrees to harbour him. Should he go...
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Mr. Justice Raffles is a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung. It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief. It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles books which had begun with The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. Unlike the three previous works, the book was a full-length novel and featured darker elements than the earlier collections of short stories. In it a jaded Raffles is growing increasingly cynical...
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Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fiction Since his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles's side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen. Without him, Bunny is a struggling ex-convict, so down on his luck that he answers an ad seeking a male nurse and companion for a notoriously rude invalid....
11) Witching Hill
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Generations ago the evil nobleman Lord Mulcaster lived on the Witching Hill estate. Now everyone who comes to live in the suburban villas erected on the subdivided estate succumb to the curse of Mulcaster's bad deeds, and are driven to evil acts. Uvo Delavoye, an indirect descendent of Mulcaster, has to work out the reasons behind the crimes and tragedies committed on the estate. Written by Ernest William Hornung, the author most famous as the creator...
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Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewellery from his hosts. In this, he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveillance of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard who is always thwarted...
14) Stingaree
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Stingaree is a 1905 novel by E. W. Hornung about an Australian bushranger. It was allegedly based on the Kelly Gang.
16) Tiny Luttrell
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Catherine "Tiny"Luttrell is the daughter of a sheep ranch owner in Australia. and is the youngest of three siblings, who are her brother Herbert and sister Ruth. The story opens with Tiny saying good bye to her childhood home at the ranch before going to London for the season to visit the recently married Ruth. But, she also says goodbye to Jack Swift the recently promoted ranch hand who was one of her early meaningless love affairs as everyone knows...
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Raffles, the gentleman thief, was created by E. W. Hornung, who was brother-in-law to the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. In many ways, Raffles is an inversion of Holmes, he has his own Watson in the form of Harry "Bunny" Manders, and he is a master of disguise. This compilation contains three Raffles stories: • The Amateur Cracksman • Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • A Thief in the Night
19) The Young Guard
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Excerpt: "Last summer, centuries ago, I watched the postman's lantern glow, As night by night on leaden feet He twinkled down our darkened street. So welcome on his beaten track, The bent man with the bulging sack! But, dread of every sleepless couch, A whistling imp with leathern pouch! And, now I meet him in the way And earth is Heaven, night is Day, For oh! there shines before his lamp An envelope without a stamp!"